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A heavily illustrated tour of the nitty-gritty details of water engineering and project planning for early Chicago and its North Side with retired executive director of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, Richard Lanyon To reverse the flow of a river wouldn't be possible today, but to Chicago near the end of the nineteenth century, it became a matter of survival. In the largest municipal earth-moving project ever at that point, an engineering marvel, and a monumental public works success, the flow of the Chicago River was turned away from Lake Michigan in 1900 to remove river sewage from the lake and prevent the spread of deadly, waterborne diseases. The time had come to re-direct the sewers that had been discharging directly to the lake in Lake View, Edgewater, Rogers Park, Evanston, and Wilmette, and the municipalities and the Sanitary District of Chicago worked together on the massive undertaking.

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